The Wharton School is the business school of University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1881 through a donation of Joseph Wharton, making it the world’s first collegiate business school.

In conjunction with the other schools and colleagues of the university, Wharton grants B.S., MBA, offers a Ph.D. program, and holds several diploma programs. With the most electives of any business school[citation needed], Wharton offers concentrations in Accounting, Business and Public Policy, Entrepreneurial Management, Environmental Management, Finance, Health Care Systems, Human Resource and Organizational Management, Insurance and Risk Management, Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Management, Marketing, Multinational Management, Operations and Information Management, Real Estate, Retailing, Statistics and Strategic Management.

Since the 1990s, the popular and financial press has consistently ranked Wharton as one of the world's top institutions for business education. Moreover, it has been ranked the best business school in the world by the Financial Times in every year in which the newspaper has ranked business schools, except for 2005, when it tied with Harvard Business School. Wharton usually receives the highest reputation scores from academics and recruiters.

The school has over 300 faculty members, translating to an 8:1 student-to-faculty ratio. The school claims that its faculty are the world’s most published and most cited among business schools[citation needed]. Research published in the peer-reviewed Academy of Management journal ranked Wharton as top institution in the simultaneous pursuit of scholarly achievements and excellence in teaching. Most recently, the Chronicle of Higher Education rated Wharton's Marketing and Management departments as the first and second in the world for research productivity, respectively.

The admissions process at Wharton is highly selective — it is one of the most competitive business schools in the U.S. A high GPA, high GMAT score, and very strong non-quantitative credentials are typically prerequisites to admission.

The School publishes an influential[citation needed] on-line journal, Knowledge@Wharton, that is "the envy of every other school", and a newly established publishing house Wharton School Publishing. Wharton maintains the world's largest[citation needed] financial, economics, management, marketing, and public policy data warehouses accessible through state-of-the-art web-based data management services, called WRDS.

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FEATURES
Riding It Out 8
Amid layoffs and hiring freezes, Wharton alumni and students evaluate prospects for careers in finance in a global downturn.

State of Business 2009 16
Professors Franklin Allen, Mike Useem, Jeremy Siegel, and Stephen Hoch on the state of the economy now and in the year to come.

Water Shock 22
Water shortages could be the next political and economic flashpoints — and Wharton alumni and faculty are working towards solutions.

An Empire City of Dreams 26
Dubai has built a service economy for the Middle East, and Wharton is there.

DEPARTMENTS
Wharton Now 2
Tackling the financial crisis, introducing the new Vice Dean for Global Initiatives, creating social value at Net Impact North American Conference, and more.

Knowledge@Wharton 32
Do the SEC’s new rating agency rules have any bite?

Next Up at Wharton School Publishing 36
Two titles on leading when the need is greatest.

Alumni Association Update 38
Alumni Board’s strategic focus, news from Boston and Philadelphia clubs.

Class Notes 40
Wharton Leader: Mark Kingdon, WG’88 49
Leadership Spotlight 81
Mohammed Alshaya, WG’84

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